Fantasy

Feald — Part 4

I finished the apple sitting on the dirt floor of the enclosure, holding Elda close to me. She shivered, clinging to my arm with painful ferocity.

“Can you tell me what happened?” I asked, smoothing back her tangled hair.

Feald — Part 3

My back and legs were stiff the next morning, and my stomach gurgled a warning of hunger to come. Looking at my pebble and stick arrow, I wasn’t sure I had followed the right trail in last night’s dusk; but I had no better options, so I followed it further up the mountain. The possible hoof marks…

Feald — Part 2

It wasn’t until we crested the hill of the copse that we heard crashing sounds and smelled the beginnings of the smoke.

“Up that tree!” I commanded Elda in a hoarse whisper. “Up, now! Stay hidden!”

Feald — Part 1

“You promised,” whined Elda, squirming as I braided her long, yellow hair.
I pinched her arm, holding the three strands apart with the fingers of my left hand. “Hold still, fish.” The morning cold was making my fingers stiff and uncooperative, and that, added to her usual restlessness, was making her…

Heir to Yhsan — Sneak Preview #1

“Yicky yicky Yhsan! Yicky yicky Yhsan!”
Claire grimaced as the sound of Gimlet’s chanting grew nearer…

Podcastle Episode 90: Biographical Notes to “A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-planes” by Benjamin Rosenbaum

And now I am in the mood for steampunkishness.